From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Paul Batt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems setting dired-listing-switches variable Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:59:54 +0200 Message-ID: <584evnF2c8aqeU1@mid.individual.net> References: <583vseF2evqtkU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176309419 22190 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2007 16:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:36:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 18:36:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HbfoP-0002nY-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HbfsO-0000ls-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:40:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net oh1OCfsWllLIK1T/rWrdog+GbM4iNfGcrIqhOTvWpNy3fqmD0= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146983 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42587 Archived-At: "Stein Arild "Strømme"" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:jxuzm5fyva6.fsf@math.uib.no... > [Paul Batt] > > | I'd like to set the dired listing in such a way that all those filenames > | starting with a point don't show up. But the ..-directory should be > there, > | otherwise I see no way to move along the directory tree. > > Try ^ Yes, that changes to the parent directory. Very helpful, tks. Still I'd like to know why --ignore= or --hide= in (dired-listing-switches) don't work. The emacs manual says they should. Paul